A report on Friday night from WBBH, an NBC television affiliate in Fort Myers, Fla., said Phelps will return to swimming with an eye toward competing at the 2016 Rio Olympics. The three-paragraph story on the station's Web site was posted by news anchor Peter Busch, who is the son of Frank Busch, director of the U.S. national swim team.
"The greatest Olympian of all time isn't hanging up his swimsuit, after all," the report said, without citing any sources.
Phelps went on Twitter to downplay the report, but he didn't specifically deny it either.
"Why do I keep getting texts about coming back?" he wrote. "Do (people) really believe everything they hear or read? There are (too) many (people) in the world that think they have a 'story.'"...
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05:30 PM, Aug 11, 2012
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05:57 PM, Aug 07, 2012
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01:06 PM, Aug 06, 2012
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11:00 AM, Aug 05, 2012
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09:44 AM, Aug 05, 2012
London: The finale was a formality, more a coronation than a contest. Michael Phelps headed into the retirement the only way imaginable " with another gold medal. Reclaiming the lead with his trademark butterfly stroke, the one seen in his Olympic debut as a 15-year-old in Sydney a dozen years ago, Phelps won the 18th gold of a mind-boggling career in the 4x100-meter medley relay Saturday. When it was done,...
03:25 AM, Aug 05, 2012
London: An era of unprecedented sporting domination comes to an end at the London Olympics on Saturday, when Michael Phelps swims his last competitive race. Phelps is heavily favored to add one more gold to his collection of 21 Olympic medals, 17 of them gold, when he swims the butterfly leg of the 4x100 medley relay, a race the Americans have never lost. The 27-year-old swam his first Olympics in...
02:54 PM, Aug 04, 2012
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11:17 AM, Aug 03, 2012
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12:43 PM, Aug 01, 2012
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